CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Dr Samir V Kamat assumed charge as Secretary, Department of Defence R&D and Chairman, DRDO on 26 August 2022. Dr Kamat completed B. Tech. (Hons) in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT-Kharagpur in 1985 and PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University, USA in 1988, and joined DRDO in 1989.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dr APJ Abdul Kalam | Defence Research and Development Organisation-DRDO, Ministry of Defence, Government of India.

Detailed explanation-3: -Shri Vipin Kumar Kaushik, Scientist ‘G’ assumed office as Director, Directorate of Public Interface, DRDO Hqrs w.e.f. 29 April 2022.